Idea has potential ** snail looks more on the amber than in -- try some additional layers of the amber at varying blending modes and opacities or fill levels You should be able to find one that "sinks" the snail into the amber

Hi Alan thanks for the suggestion - I was trying to keep the transparency going so the hand still shows through but you know what I did forget - the snail should have a shadow.

done

You can alway try puttting a layer of the hand over the top, masking out parts that you don't like with a layer mask, then reducing the opacity ... that can sometime give the appearance of seeing something "through" when you are losing it ...hope that makes sense???

Nice idea ... very interesting work and concept.